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ReRe

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6. This is what we have become.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon May 2, 2016, 12:11 PM

May 2016

Not only in the military, but they use solitary confinement as a punishment to prisoners in our regular prisons, many of them young people, the mentally ill, many of them totally innocent of whatever they were charged with.

Shame. Shame on us.

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Chelsea Manning- Solitary confinement is 'no touch' torture, and it must be abolished [View all] n2doc May 2016 OP

We are so good at torture. LiberalArkie May 2016 #1

Forcing a transgender to be naked is also torture. Fsck us sometimes. merrily May 2016 #2

Doesn't help when you 'joke' about suicide... TipTok May 2016 #3

k&r tk2kewl May 2016 #4

This is horrifying. snot May 2016 #5

This is what we have become. ReRe May 2016 #6